Atonement begins tonight (October 7) and Spanky Meredith wants to make sure you know how to fast. So for all of you reprobates out there who have conveniently forgotten how, here is how you do it:
1. Before you fast, prepare your body for the shock. Do not eat a great big meal (certainly not one including a big, sweet dessert), or indulge in a pepper steak or some spicy hot Mexican food just before your fast begins. These make you crave water, and all during your fast this will distract you into thinking, “Oh, no, I’m going to die!” For a profitable spiritual fast, you need a clear but humbled mind. So it is best to taper off on food, especially sweets and strong spices. Drink a lot of water the day before, to help begin to cleanse your system.
2. Take steps to ensure your digestive system is as free of poisons as it can be during your fast, so any headaches and other symptoms of hunger will be as mild as possible. Make sure you take proper care of your individual health needs before you fast, so you can obtain the maximum benefit and feel the fewest possible physical distractions when you fast. You may wish to consult your physician if you have a health condition that fasting can affect.
3. Fast regularly enough for your body to adjust itself to the practice. Some people who think they are “about to die” when they fast could actually find fasting much easier if they did it for a day every month or two, if their health allows.
4. After your fast, begin eating again slowly. Do not swallow a huge steak in the first ten minutes. It will actually do you more good if you eat a smaller, lighter meal, or eat a meal spread out over a couple of hours in stages—maybe beginning with a warm, creamy soup. If your fast has lasted for longer than a day, it may be far better—or even necessary—to end it with something very small, like some stewed prunes or maybe a poached or soft-boiled egg.
8 comments:
Terrible advice, particularly if you are a diabetic.
Stewed prunes after fasting? Really?
That will really clean you out.
What a terrible idea.
Fast often to build up immunity? Really? Isn't that like taking a little bit of toxic heavy metal into your body that poisons you cumulatively? Besides, this is a spiritual fast -- not a physical one for health reasons.
When did Meredith finish his residency? Are his medical credentials still current?
I have a bad feeling about this.
Advice on fasting from a fathead.
Great.
Or you could do what Herbert Armstrong did: He had a cup of coffee and a donut "to keep his strength up".
Let's see now.
Scripture is very clear about this: Anyone who eats on the Day of Atonement, his "soul shall be cut off". I presume that means that he shall lose the Holy Spirit. Therefore, he would no longer have any right to speak to the congregation of God.
Isn't that right?
Douglas, I remember something about the coffee, donuts as well?
Yes, I think it is in the Ambassador Reports, but definitively donut with coffee.
Had to keep up his strength.
While the rest of the old people, particularly those widow ladies, had to tough it out and risk death.
But Herbert Armstrong had to keep up his strength for the sermon to yell at everyone about how sinful they were, how great the work was or some such.
So much for having faith to be able to be lifted up on eagle's wings.
It was turkeys if you ask me.
Why don't they just beat themselves with sticks? Maybe they would get their god's attention. Isn't that why we always did penance(fasting), to find merit with our god? Then, we would sit in a restaurant and wait until the last second for the sun to go down(looking at our watches)before we started poking our holes with food again. It's a good thing all of those people were WORKING at the restaurant for us BEFORE the sun went down!
On Atonement, Herb always had fresh squeezed orange juice waiting him back stage in the Auditorium. Apostles have to keep their energy level up!
Fresh squeezed. You don't say. Servile labor. Paid servile labor?
You can smell the conversion from here.
Wait.
It smells, but it isn't conversion.
And right on the heels of how to fast, CoGWriter (shouldn't he call himself CoGReWriter) has a new blog entry Harold Camping & Followers to Soon See More of Their Errors.
Talk about pots calling kettles black.
It's doubtful they will see their errors -- LCG members don't see theirs.
It reminds me of the 1956 book, "When Prophecy Fails", only this time with Meredith it isn't UFOs -- but something just as goofy: British Israelism and church history.
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